The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27
Professor GOuge's Institute.
From the Albany Evening journal.

A week from next Wednesday will begin
the last term in the scholastic year of 'S6
and 'S7 of the Veterinary and Polytechnic
Institute 1t has been to us who linger in
the academic shades a successful year. The
low price of hops, added to uncertainty in
the price of cheese, has, to be sure, devel-
oped tendency in my patrons to lose their
mail when it contains bill. This low state
of the registered letter business has reacted
on the cuisine of the institute, and graham
bread and Goldfish balls have given pleas
ing variety. The boys have to be let out a
good deal oftener than their clothing, and
growth has been mental instead of physical.
The academy is pleasantly situated at the
head of navigation on the pike running
from Springfield Corners to Springfield. 1t
is rising institution and stands on rising
ground. The air about it is salubrious and
plenty of it. The school is within ten min
utes' walk of a road which runs to the rail-
way. The course of study in the collegiate
department includes what we may call the
bric-d-brdc of science and social law. A
gorgeous Autograph diploma is given on
graduation, costing eighty cents. DR.. Dio
Lewis system of musical gymnastics is
taught in the school. By daily exercise and
perfect freedom at the wood-pile with a
buck-saw, not to speak of blackberry pick
ing when in season. it will be attempted to
preserve and invigorate the health of all
members of the school The discipline of
the school, while it seeks to inspire public
confidence, is also aimed at the most fieshy
part of the person. Though firm and I'M
yielding, it will be strictly kind in its char
acter. Board and tuition in English and
Latin, $3.50 per annum, half-yearly in adj
vance or quarterly, If more convenient. A
limited quantity of truck will be taken at
market rates, but turnips, pumpkins and
hemlock wood will be promptly returned.
Deduction for boarding self, $50 per annum.
We lose money at that Terms for instruc-
ton in journalism, free-hand stump-speak-
ing and drumming for dry-goods regulated
by cost of teachers employed. Each stu
dent will supply himself with bedquilt
and napkin-ring, and he will mark every
article with his name as an evidence of good
faith. Like all first.class schools, we have
curriculum, but no one will be allowed to
ride in it except the professors and their
families with the exception of to and from
the depot. Smoked glass will be furnished
to the students through which to observe
eclipses. An open-topped observatory is on
the roof, through which the heavens at
night may be viewed without extra charge.
| The milky way is Immediately over this
room. Several nicely-fxed stars and few
asteroids are discovered every year and
turned over to the nearest signal service sta
ton. For scientific purposes no school
could be better situated. 1t is exactly in
the center of the earth, and the four points
| of the compass radiate exactly from this
| great center. The museum occupies almost
four sides of large room. Wild animals
securely stuffed and cased in glass startle
and entrance the beholder. Birds from
every sky and monkeys from every climb
| glare upon the startled students. Rocks
petrihcations and plaster casts cast studi-
Gus glow over the youthful mind, while
snakes and reptiles in cleaning varnish and
colors lure the juvenile scholar along the
paths of learning. The museum is free to
the students, but we deprecate the vanda
deed of hungry youth from Herkmer
who picked the bald-headed eagle and took
it down to the cook to have it baked fol
Thanksgiving. Such actions SAVIOR more OF
rebellion than wit. We here give fair warn,
ing that dressing the skeleton up in sum
mer suit and hanging it out of the museum
window will subject the perpetrator tc
expulsion. Let the dead past bury its dead
Oral instruction is feature here. During
the year young lady elocutionists will be al
| lowed, on paying bonus OF $40 into the Ii
brary fund.- to read "Curfew shall not bang
tonight and " Horatio at the Poughkeepsit
bridge" and other poems of that class. Il
the students while secured in the lecture
room. Professors Gouge and Korpuscle hav,
new lectures on "The Mugwump in Poll
tics" "The Evolution of the Crank " anC
the list of kindred subjects treated on, fo
they have often been treated on those lee
lures. and the interest will be kept alive, i
stimulants will do it. We refer by permits
sion to any of the alumni of the institution
many of whom retain their responsibility ant
but few of whom are in politics. Rooms
should be selected early, as the lowest room
come highest and the highest room come
lowest. The rooms are very good, in fac
better than their company. This is sportive
Letters enclosing two-cent stamps will re
ceive prompt attention and the stamps will
be taken care of. Catalogues and diagram
of the dormitories will be sent on applica
ton. AS Boulanger remarked in his fourth
satire:
IT'S education makes the hoy resigned
When twigs around him bend the youth will mind.
PROFESSOR GoUGE, ID, LID.